Green Roofs

Louisville Grows to begin construction on its Healthy House headquarters

One of the most ambitious of Gill Holland's development goals for the Portland neighborhood is the 21st Century Shotgun Project, in which he enlisted...

City gazing from the rooftop of the historic Brown Hotel

Sixteen floors above Fourth Street, a row of terracotta urns perched atop the Brown Hotel forms its own miniature skyline set against the skyscrapers...

How to beat extreme heat: Strategies for combating the urban heat...

Four years ago, Louisville, Kentucky, awoke to an alarming urban trend. This forward-thinking southern city—recently ranked as America’s most livable by the U.S. Conference...

University of Louisville Adds a Green Roof at New Business School

The University of Louisville opened an addition to its business school building on the Belknap Campus last week. The new 7,000-square-foot flatiron-shaped wing collects...

Green Roof Finished at Mazzoli Federal Building

This week officials celebrated Louisville's latest green roof—and Kentucky's largest at almost 27,000 square feet—atop the Mazzoli Federal Building in Downtown. The $1.3 million...

TARC Earns LEED Gold for Maintenance Facility

It's a rather utilitarian building tucked away, out of sight behind the grand Union Station at Tenth Street and Broadway, but TARC's new maintenance...

Green Roof At The American Life Building

You probably won't notice from the sidewalk, but there's a new green roof installed at the American Life building at Fifth and Main Streets....

Video: What A Green Metropolis Could Look Like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-5PyDIzY0 Check out this video titled Infrastructure In An Ecological Age of a theoretical Manchester, England after it has undergone a sustainability overhaul. The video was...

Green Roof Headed For Metro Archives

A new green roof is planned for the Louisville Metro Archives building near the corner of Seventh Street and Industry Road in part of...